Mike Smith sets the stage as political cartoonists discuss the news, the announcement and the reaction to both.It’s a conversation made more interesting to watch because, while nobody is mourning the loss of al-Baghdadi any more than they mourned the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011, they are contrasting the two events. At that time, […]
…to refer to any 20th-century daily paper as a “local paper” hides an important truth: the proportion of newspaper content that was written, designed, and printed locally decreased in the early 20th century. Aided by a new technology called the stereotype, syndicates began to sell the same articles and illustrations to hundreds of different newspapers […]
There’s a reason Lynda Barry is the first comics artist to win a MacArthur “Genius” Award.She loves children. Making Comics is a love letter to every child who ever picked up a crayon and started making marks with unselfconscious intensity. Those children include her college students. Like her readers, some arrive at class with artistic […]
“Give me a single panel cartoon any day.” So said Bob Mankoff, this year’s keynote speaker Nov. 7 at the Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish Book Festival in response to being asked how how his absurdist, pointillist illustrations in The New Yorker and other major publications stack up against other forms of humorous social commentary like […]
Cartoonist Steve DuQuette has passed away. Steven Aldrich (Steve) DuQuette May 13, 1927 – October 26, 2019 Saying Steve was a cartoonist seems a bit of understating. He was a gag/magazine cartoonist, a caricaturist, an editorial cartoonist, a spot illustrator, he did comic features, and on and on.From Mike Lynch:He was one of the kindest, most […]
I like this old photo of a Boise fire brigade racing off to a fire because the firefighters are hanging on, still struggling into their gear, while the horses are at full speed, on the job and having the time of their lives.As this piece from Merrimack, NH, Fire Rescue explains, the horses that pulled […]
Last Sunday’s Providence Journal:Posted Oct 20, 2019 at 9:43 AM We published week-old comics in today’s Sunday Journal. That’s not the level of service you expect from us, or that we aim to give you. We’ll add yesterday’s comics to next Sunday’s paper, in addition to next Sunday’s comics. In the meantime, please accept our apologies. Alan Rosenberg, executive editorI’m […]
Kal Kallaugher takes on the hypocrisy of an administration that has broken its campaign promise to release the President’s tax records and that refuses to cooperate with requests for specific records and testimony, but then feels free to accuse the fact-finding committees of secrecy and stonewalling.Granted, Dear Leader is not an attorney himself, and also […]
Utah in November. THU, NOV 14 AT 7 PM MST Pat Bagley’s 40th Anniversary Celebration The tickets to get in are free, but going fast. France in OctoberA group of CagleCartoonists headed to France for the 38ème Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour, joining an international assemblage of political cartoonists. Daryl […]
The Guardian has a piece on Prince’s new posthumous memoir “The Beautiful Ones.” Included in the book are cartoons written and drawn by Prince, who’d been drawing since he was a boy.From the piece:“The book contains cartoons by Prince (he called them ‘Prince’s Funnies’), details of his first kiss, memories of watching R-rated movies at […]
Mike Thompson leads off today’s roundup of graphic commentary on Congressional Republicans’ assault on the United States government, not only because it’s a dramatic image but because he points out the hypocrisy of the GOP pose of favoring “law and order” when the law is on their side, and ignoring it when it is not. And, […]
Now playing in the local Bijou Theater are some movies that would seem custom-made for advertising in a comic strip format. That supposes movie companies spend money on print advertising these days. In the past comic strips were used to promote movies, though I don’t want to imply that it was a frequent occurrence.Elsewhere on this […]
Edison Lee provokes a great deal more thought than I had been planning to pour into anything, but this question actually came up in my hometown a quarter century ago.A microburst ripped through the Adirondacks July 15, 1995, taking down half the trees on a 100,000 acre swath of destruction that included Star Lake. The most […]
Business Insider reports: The “book channel” – which includes chain bookstores and online retailers – is projected to surpass comic shops as the the largest channel for comics sales this year. There are two major reasons why this is happening: Graphic novels are growing in popularity primarily through the book channel and children’s comics, which […]
Ashlie D. Stevens:In March, Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted the “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” to Attorney General William Barr. There had been a tremendous amount of speculation about its contents and what it would reveal about President Donald Trump and his relationship with the Russian government. The […]